State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley disagrees with the school mask mandate, saying the decision should be left to local school boards. He says schools got pretty good at keeping kids safe from COVID over the last year…
Despite disagreeing he says most schools are following the masking policy.
And an increasing number of parents are choosing not to worry about public school policy and instead home school their children per recent Census data. Homeschool Louisiana President Chris Chin says homeschooling is more than twice as popular now as it was pre pandemic.
The latest AARP dashboard indicates staff vaccination rates at Louisiana nursing homes are at 44-percent, well below the advised benchmark of 75-percent or higher. As a result the state branch is calling on nursing home facilities to require all staff, visitors, and residents to be vaccinated. Director of Advocacy Andrew Muhl…
LSU President William Tate says vaccines will likely be mandatory on campus within the next few weeks. Tate says even before the mandate comes in you should get vaccinated.
Some faculty have balked at the delay, saying a September mandate would mean most students wouldn’t be fully vaccinated until mid-October.